What You Need To Know About Air Combat Maneuvering | ACM Communication | DCS | Part 2

The Ops Center By Mike Solyom
The Ops Center By Mike Solyom
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Published 2022-10-14
The very core of Air Combat Maneuvering is working as a team. You can only do that by knowing your part in the fight and effectively communicating with your wingman. In this video we'll go over how that works as taught by the US Air Force.

Everything in this video comes from a publicly released document which can be found here:

static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/aetc/publi…

Intro 00:00
ACM Roles 00:20
Establishing Roles 05:33
ACM Radio Calls 07:38


Formation Flying Part 1:    • Flying Formation The USAF Way | Part ...  
BFM playlist:    • Basic Fighter Maneuvers (BFM)  

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The presence of DOD Visual Information in this video does not constitute endorsement by the DOD or any of its departments. Any views expressed by the presenter are those of the presenter and do not represent the views of the DOD or any of its components.

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All Comments (21)
  • @ahmadmuhammadadamu7314
    Man, I cannot believe these beautiful nuggets of air combat wisdom is freely available. Thank you. You've most certainly earned a new subscriber.
  • @hez0r
    Once again, this is the best place on YouTube for learning BFM/ACM. My hats off to you for making such excellent content for us all!
  • @BogeyDope
    Thank you Mike for all you do. Always very organized and clear.
  • @relicgamer731
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  • @S3NTRY
    Excellent as always, thanks again!
  • @kylelaravia1407
    Sir, I want to thank you for these videos that are teaching me so much. Super helpful, I am actually looking to join the AF and become a pilot. So all these videos are amazingly helpful.
  • @gort8203
    Nice video. Almost makes me wish I was set up to play DCS again. 🙂
  • @yurgon15723
    Fantastic video, thanks! But I've got a question regarding the callsigns in the second half of the video. We have "Eagle 11" and "Eagle 12", but right after that, they're referred to as "Eagle 1" and "Eagle 2" instead. Does that mean the first digit (Eagle 1 flight) gets omitted in these calls? And wouldn't it be more common to omit the Eagle callsign altogether and just call each other "1" and "2" as long as it's intra-flight? Otherwise, I'd have expected "Eagle 11, engaged" and "Eagle 11, press" instead of "Eagle 1" as it was given in the examples.
  • @dash9655
    Why does eagle 2 say "eagle 2, tally"at 12:30? Shouldnt the callsign be the element to receive the call? Its confusing here as the callsigns are used to identify both the caller and receiver